- Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1962-10-01
- Director: Sergey Gerasimov
- Writers: Sergey Gerasimov , Tamara Makarova
- Language: Russian
- Stars: Nikolay Eryomenko , Tamara Makarova , Zhanna Bolotova , Tatyana Gavrilova , Karla Assmus , Fredy Barten , Mayya Bulgakova , Evelyn Cron , Vitali Doronin , Erika Dunkelmann
- Runtime: 178 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Men and Beasts , Lyudi i zveri , Le rescapé (France, French Republic) , Men and Beasts (United States of America) , Ludzie i bestie (Poland) , Oameni și fiare (Romania) , Menschen und Tiere , Люди и звери , Men and Beasts (United Kingdom)
- Plot: A man returning to his family in the USSR of the 1960s revisits his past in flashbacks: his time with the Germans during WWII and after,and his time in Argentina.
- IMDB:tt0056205
Men and Beasts Cast · · · ALL
Sergey Gerasimov
Director
Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Tamara Makarova
Anna Andreyevna
Zhanna Bolotova
Tanya
Vitali Doronin
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Sergey Nikonenko
Yuri Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova
Varvara Andreyevna
Anastasia Filippova
Stepanida Gavrilovna
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Klyachko
Vadim Zakharchenko
Savateyev
Sergey Gerasimov
Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Maria Rouvel
frau Wilde
Peter Reusse
Otto
Werner Toelke
Caesar
Ivan Kuznetsov
uncle Nikolai
Konstantin Bartashevich
Kuznetsov
Mayya Bulgakova
Galina
Manefa Sobolevskaya
homeowner
Viktor Filippov
traffic police inspector
Georgi Shapovalov
drunk driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
herr Haslinger
Evelyn Cron
Brigitte
Ivan Malré
argentinean man
Hans Klering
official
Jürgen Frohriep
corporal (uncredited)
Erika Dunkelmann
frau Haslinger (uncredited)